Using survey data, we examined Medicaid supplemental payments (SPs), including disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) and upper payment limit (UPL) payments in 2005 and changes in these payments between 2001 and 2005. We found that states increased their use of general funds in financing of DSH payments while expanding the size and scope of other SPs considerably. Although the federal government...

Introduction Since the earl y 1990s, housing associations have been promoted by central government and encouraged to become mainstream providers of social-rented housing for low-income fa mil ies. An accompanying shift in the role of the local authorities was envisaged, towards their becoming enablers of a range of housing options, with less emphasis on direct public-housing provision. However,...

The federal government buys many goods and services that are expected to increase private-sector productivity—that is, the ability of the private-sector workforce, using the stock of capital, to produce goods and services. Such purchases by the federal government are called investment. In an earlier report, the Congressional Budget Office examined various aspects of federal investment itself, s...

Because Congress maintains a reputation as the most powerful branch of our federal government in the policymaking process, it is crucial that we understand the ins and outs of these procedures that drive our nation. The factors of political party identification, Congressional house of origin (the House of Representatives or the Senate), Congressional subgroup of origin (committee, subcommittee,...

In Australia since the 1970s there has been an invitation to parents to participate as partners with teachers in their children’s schooling. This invitation, explicitly expressed in the Karmel Report in 1973, has been repeated in many forms throughout the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, leading parents to believe that they are entitled to a say in how their children are schooled. Emanating from...

Nigeria as a nation operates a federal structure of government, federalism refers the existence in one country of more than one level of government, each with different expenditure responsibilities and taxing powers. The major aim of this study is to asses the impact of revenue allocation on economic growth in Nigeria. Secondary data employed in this study were assembled from CBN statistics, Na...